I Have Been Very Lucky To Work

I Fell In Love With New York. It Was Like Every Human Being, Like Any Relationship. When I Was A Young New Yorker, It Was One City. When I Was A Grown Man, It Was Another City. I Worked With Many Dance Organizations And Many Wonderful People. In The '90s, It Became Kind Of A Hard And Unwelcoming City In Many Ways. It Became Conservative, Like The Whole Country.

I Think I Got Disappointed Over The Years About New York, About The States. You Know, Sometimes You Go And Visit Europe And See Good Old Socialism In Its Good Part! You See Public Concern About Art, And Young People's Participation And Young Faces In The Audience.

My Mother Had A Son From Previous Marriage And Her Husband Died In Second World War.

We Lived, Until I Was 12 Or So, In Communal Apartment With Five Different Families And The Same Kitchen, In Two Little - My Brother And Me And My Parents. It Was Hell, But It Was A Common Thing. My Father Was Not General Or Admiral, But He Was Colonel. He Was Teaching In Military Academy Military Topography.

I Feel Very Uneasy With A Lot Of Aspects Of The Russian Life And The Russian People.